Tenacity Level 2 (7/20): Strengthened the user's defense, reducing the physical damage taken from the next two attacks by 11%.
Just like Stealth before it, the bonuses gained from leveling up the skill were not particularly significant.
But this was only one level. If it could be raised to its maximum level, the accumulated gains would be quite considerable.
It was about time. Everyone got up one after another, ate something simple to replenish their energy, and set off on the journey home.
Compared to when they had arrived, they were now truly laden with spoils, their backpacks stuffed with all sorts of loot.
This adventure had been quite fruitful even for a mid-tier adventurer squad like the Charging Bull Squad in Roland Town.
Yet perhaps precisely because of that, they seemed even more likely to attract greedy Goblins.
Monster materials were useful to Goblins as well.
Though they lacked the exquisite craftsmanship of human and Dwarf blacksmiths, even crudely cutting the materials up and wearing them was no small improvement.
The walnut-sized brains of these little green creatures made them utterly incapable of considering how the people before them had acquired those materials. They merely followed their greedy nature, coming to cause trouble wave after wave.
"These Goblins really never end!"
Of course, such low-level monsters posed no threat whatsoever to the Charging Bull Squad members, but being constantly harassed and blocked along the way was still incredibly irritating.
"It looks like the Goblin population is growing much faster than expected. People are still frequently being abducted from the town, so those villages must be..."
The tenets of the Knight Profession gave Rick a somewhat stronger sense of justice than the others.
Of course, it only went as far as talking about it.
"Then you'll have to